The agency model for plane tickets is very low-margin and is getting squeezed further by mergers in the airline business (Northwest-Delta, United- Continental, Southwest-AirTran).
Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country tour.
Buy an EETC backed by one of United's new Airbus A320s--the plane preferred by upstart airline JetBlue Airways (nyse: JBLU - news - people )--and you might make a big profit, Denney says.
And this March, Kennedy's temper got the best of him when -- rushing for a plane at Los Angeles International Airport after a fund-raising event -- he shoved a security guard who told him his carry-on bag was too large.
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And the fireman never responded, but the guy in front of us said that if it had been a passenger plane" -- meaning a full-size jet like the one that had, in fact, crashed into the building -- "we'd all be down.
But the obese, the gamblers, rugby players, skiers, the sedentary, the promiscuous who don't practice safe sex, those who won't wear helmets on motorcycles and bikes, horseback riders, pool owners, all-terrain-vehicle operators, small-plane pilots, sunbathers, scuba divers, and surfers -- all of whom cost us money and incur higher than average health care costs -- are still on the job.
The plane carrying the 80-year-old pope landed at Valletta airport after a three-and-a-half hour flight from Damascus.
In the wake of Boeing's lithium-ion battery challenges, Airbus decided not to go with the same technology in the new plane -- opting instead for traditional -- and heavier -- nickel-cadmium batteries.
In terms of written communication from passengers on the plane to people down below -- e-mail, text messages sent from cell phones, social network posts -- the more the better.
The Osprey's tiltrotor technology makes it the world's only transport plane capable of taking-off and landing vertically and converting in-flight to fly at speeds comparable to conventional turbo-props.
Instead, another plane -- probably the smaller C-17, with its short landing and takeoff characteristics -- would be the likely choice for the first hop out of Afghanistan.
Critics carp that the plane is unneeded in a post-Cold War world and that we should, instead, only upgrade the F-15 and F-16 and wait for the proposed Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft that's coming several years hence.
Critics carp that the plane is unneeded in a post-Cold War world and that we should, instead, only upgrade the F-15 and F-16 and wait for the proposed Joint Strike Fighter aircraft that's coming several years hence.
Other activities for Cassini scientists during the extended mission will include monitoring seasons on Titan and Saturn, observing unique ring events - such as the 2009 equinox when the Sun will be in the plane of the rings - and exploring new places within Saturn's magnetic "envelope" - or magnetosphere.
The Air Force, until strong-armed by a few legislators, rightly did not want as big a plane as the KC-30 for the simple reason that it is far better to have a larger number of smaller, more fuel-efficient aircraft capable of operating from many airfields.
The first officer saw a bright object ahead of the plane -- the planet Venus -- and mistook it for the approaching C-17.
For its part, the Navy has a prototype for an unmanned strike plane, the X-47B, which looks like a gigantic matte-gray flying saucer, with a 62-foot wingspan.
Once the IRS caved, lawyers, accountants, plane brokers and fractional ownership companies like Berkshire Hathaway 's (nyse: BRKa - news - people ) NetJets actively promoted the tax advantages of buying your own company plane--or plane share.
On December 21, our plane skidded into the heart of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire in a whiteout blizzard that made Vienna resemble an 18th-century snow-globe.
The A400M military transport plane program was launched six years ago with an order for 180 planes from seven governments--Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey--but the project is running at least three years late.
It's the story of how you greeted the plane upon landing -- hundreds of sailors -- and escorted Scott's flag-draped casket to your chapel.
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It explores the idea of a low-fuel-use plane that uses open-rotor engines mounted on what is called a Pi-tail in the stern of the ship.
It was only accessible by plane until 2000, when the final 62 miles of the 770-mile road finally linked the remote village to the rest of the highway (via an hour-long ferry ride to Puerto Yungay).
The hi-tech plane - which has radar equipment that can scan thousands of square miles in minutes - flew missions over Libya in 2011 as rebels fought to oust Col Gaddafi.
You could use both controllers to grab a 2-D plane like an image and stretch it out, or place it in different positions in the virtual 3-D space.
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At Kennedy, one suspect was removed from a plane and two others -- including a man with a phony pilot's license -- were taken into custody at a pilot's lounge.
The plane, with the wingspan of a 737, flies pilotlessly at 20, 000 meters--out of range of all but the best surface-to-air missiles.
Nowadays, behind Skunk Works' highly secure perimeter, engineers reportedly are working on the aviation wonders of tomorrow, including a lightweight cargo plane called the X-55A and a bizarre, blimp-like airship called the P-791 Hybrid Air Vehicle, which has special technology that allows it to take off and land just about anywhere.
When we left at 04:00, desperate to catch the first plane out of Istanbul - direct flights to the UK were full so we had to go via Paris - the streets were eerily quiet.
Moments after I boarded my Seattle-bound plane, I began to realize that the Sea Gals were much more than mere pom-pom shakers.
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